New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-05
"PERSONAL LIBERTY"
A NEW PARTY IN POLITICS.


rIGHT-TnuRsDAYs CONVENTION
t,,ov . sprc1AL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
ALBANY Oct q. - One Of the most remarkable
ootcai conventions In this year CROWDED Win W.
terestinQ party gatherings will BIO hold In tnis Guy
IN Thursday next october O. The convention VIII
be that Of the personal Liberty Party" OF, % IL
perhaps prefers to be known, "The League for inc
prtection of Personal Liberty" Tho party Is COM
posed almost wholly Of Germans, and 1t Is further
,mited at the present time to members Of singing,
gymnasium. shooting social and fraternal societies.
TSIs exclusion Of persons not belonging to societies
is however, not Intentional, and 1t will 10 disconun-
NO, az soon as possible: tho societies were only
chosen as centres around which to collect the Ger
mans to accomplish a political aim.
This political aim Is expressed frankly In the piaN
form. which consists Of plank only to wit no
solved That laws should be passed permitting OF the
cole ~ lIouor between the hours Of p. m. and IL
n,coch IN Sunday" The members Of the Personal
Liberty party intend to cast their votes soieiy ior
those candidates for members Of the Legislature who
will give pledge that they Will vote 10 ainehu tho
excise laws so to permit Of tho sale OF liquor OH
Sunday from 6 p m. till midnight Tho leaders VI
the party claim they already have $4,000 votes al
their command and that they can give MAJORITY Nj
the next Legislature to either the Republican or inc
De,nocratic party az they please This Is doubted
nv the Republican leaders here, who say tha' inc
Germans engaged In the movement hVe IN inc o''io0
and that Q majority Of the members OF 'no Legs
lature who are Republicans, come from country
districts, whore both Democratic aud Republican
voters are opposed opening the liquor stores on
Sunday In reply the German leaders say that many
Of the Assembly districts Of the state, notably those
of the cities of Poughkeepsie, Newburg, Eimira' Al
bany Utica and Buffalo, have within their hnnls
both country and city voters. In theSo us"i'
they think the German vote II thrown soi'uy no'
either a Democratic a Republican candidate ioI 'no
Assembly would elect him. The sena'oral u''i''.
are also made up Of city and country voters anu
.n Crerman leaders hope tip the political scales
IN tbese districts In their favor But suppose inc
country voter does not like this weighing down oi
the political balance on one side ana Jumps "po''
tbe other sde2 This would make every candida'e ior
The Legislature rather nervous about the returns on
election night. ,.,
Tho leaders Of the Personal Liberty party in'enu
10 have the secretary Of their state Cohm'.oo a0A
this ton by tetter Of every candidate for the AS
,.ubIy and the senate VIII you vote for Dill per
uniting the sale of liquor on Sunday nom p IA.
tuI miduight7" II the candidate replies III inc
negative or does not reply at all to this question the
members of the Personal Liberty party Will Vo'o
against him and in favor Of the candidate VINO IA,
answcrod In the Affirmative In districts where al
NJ the candidates give unfavorabe replies 'he rcr-
sonaI Liberty party will nominate candidates OF It's
own.
NO CONTINENTAL SUNDAY IN AMERICA.
+ Senator william NJ Evarts, while making his tour
through western New-York few days ago. was 'oio
~ ta aims of the Personal Liberty party ana inc
question that its members intend to ask inc eau
Tdatas t,r members Of the Legislature Mayor
tevvitt Of New-York started this Idea OK opening
the liquor stores Sunday Afternoons sa-u i
Eyarts obviously much interested In the supJco" W.T.
Evarts then thought q moment ana saa VI o0N''o
the adop,ion Of q law opening the saoohs iroin
D. m until midnight on Sunday means the destruoooh
fhcA IL
.srsd nv the Republican legislative candidates about
tl,is question Of the Personal Liberty party shall
say that ] would answer 'No,'-most deoidodiy No
Wa must not have Continental sunday IN A"cr'cS
I wonder that the members OF the fes"hai Liberty
marty do not see that rom the time OF Moses down
sunday has been q day OF rest chiefly Tor The sake vi
the workingmen 1t IL to protect them from con-
.,ant ,ahor that Sunday was instituted: that they
uav have Que day Of rest in every seven. IL we
q init the opening Of liquor stores OF sunday we
all have to permit tho opening VI otier paces Oh
business; and then We shall have constant work oy
all. There may be danger TO the Republican party
in having Its candidates answer the question In the
negative, but wo cannot grant such . request No
Marty can afford to bow Its head to every demand
made upon It. We afford to go out OF power
upon such an issue that Of opening Tho liquor
stores on Sunday. The people, am oohioch'
wound soon sustain us and return us to power II we
were defeated. A party is not worth rush that
defeat rather lhan abandon them. STILL II those who
desire To turn our Sunday into Continental one can
do so-let them do It. This Is q free country. III
people care so little for the Sunday that We no"
have that they won't defend ii, why. hen tho Per-
sonal Liberty party have Its desire and open the
liquor stores Sunday"
Max Kurth, a German-Amercan, Is the ieaoer Of
the Personal Liberty party In this city He said
yesterday: "The convention Of the Personal Liberty
party Will be held In Geological bah, Albany, Cd
Thursday next We expect from $50 TO 200 delegates
There VIII be delegate for every 800 members OF
the party. II 200 come that will represent OF course
100000 voters ] think shall have at least $50
delegates who will represent 10000 votofs. There
are twenty-five associations belonging to the Personal
Liberty party here in Albany They represent singing
societies. gymnasto associations, social Cube, church
unions, beneficial societies, sharpshooting clubs ano
tho Brewers Union. Albany will send ton delegates
to the convention, who will represent 5000 voters
N,w-York VIII send fifty delegates representing
$4,000 voters; Brooklyn, twenty-five deeeates rep"
senng 1880 voters Delegates Will also come from
poughkcepae, Newburg, Eimira, Utica, Amsterdam
Troy Canajohare, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, "atoi-
town and Buffalo. Our AIN Ia to have The DeoI-
gardens and liquor stores open from p. I'll mid
night ON Sunday. We not acting In the interest
Of the uquor-dealeIs They have offered to give US
money to help along our movement, but we nave o~
clnei Nor opposed TO religious ooservanoes
Sunday. On the contrary We wish the liquor stores
to be shut during church hours II opened ON sunday
afternoon would have them opened undor cfu'h
restrictions conducive order. The Personal Liberty
party has similar organizations In ONO ana rem
sylvsna In this state 1t owes Its existence w 'nS
restriction o. the sale OF liquor on sunday Ia Now
York by Mayor Hewitt. Up to that time tho ponce
had w,nked at evaaons OF the law and mon could Get
liquor therefore anywhere on Sunday In New-foK
In this city the Germans have been driven into the
movement by the Law and order soaev man
tould get drink Sunday at liquor storo with
M having his name taken by some SPY OF the society
md then be was brought before police magistrate al
= witness and made to testify whether Or no no had
bought liquor In tho liquor store ho had visited In
this city every German singing society b In inc
movement, the Apollo. tho Lederkanz, tho Cecilia
the Harmonic Besides, there Ia the Washington l2fe
Corps, tho Turn veren, ST. Johns Society and bt